Doh! I missed a station in my overview of recent Low Power FM activity in Wisconsin. Radio Survivor reader Daniel Hintz writes to us: “Great article. Saw no mention of the great station I currently DJ at, though: WXRW in Milwaukee, Riverwest Radio. We have our LPFM license in hand and we will soon be […]
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Coastal Washington community network will celebrate national radio and lemonade days
Coast Community Radio of Washington State has issued an invitation to its listeners: “Celebrate National Radio Day with us on Thursday August 20 from 11-3! But wait, it’s also National Lemonade Day and you know here at Coast Community Radio we love to bring two good things together and make one great thing! So join […]
Radio 4ZZZ and Brisbane’s postpunk explosion
John Willsteed of Brisbane, Australia is setting up a “live” documentary about the Brisbane music scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The performance doc is called “It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity.” A reporter writing about Willsteed’s work places much significance on Brisbane community signal radio 4ZZZ. Tony Moore of the Brisbane […]
Inside Wisconsin’s Low Power FM “broadcasting craze”
Midwestern reporters are talking about a “broadcasting craze” in Wisconsin, as five Low Power FM radio stations take hold across the state. These stations broadcast or will broadcast to communities 30 to 80 miles west of Milwaukee. They’re all around 20 to 40 miles apart from each other in a 40 mile area. The latest […]
LPFM Watch: Report on 250 Watt Proposal; Prometheus Barnraisings
A slow week here in August for low-power FM, with no new construction permits approved in the last week. There was no other LPFM action from the FCC, with no applications canceled or denied, either. Here are some recent stories of note: Radio World published a thorough overview of REC Networks’ proposal to the FCC […]
College Radio Watch: NextRadio Contest, Vampire Weekend Member’s College Radio Memories and More News
Summer break is rapidly drawing to a close and college campuses will soon be a buzz of activity as students return for the fall semester. I’ve been on my own break, traveling to the Pacific Northwest (which also allowed me to record last week’s Radio Survivor Podcast live in the studio in Portland, Oregon!), so […]
Notes on the Meteor Guitar Gallery of Arkansas’ low power radio future
Here is some backstory on how a community radio station will soon be broadcasting from a guitar store. In the beginning there was the Meteor Theater of Bentonville, Arkansas. One Mr. Harry Kelly, a lover of movies, built it for around $30,000. The Meteor, as it came to be called, opened in 1927, premiering Venus […]
“We need our bats.” Radio Lillooet considers its non-human constituents
From community radio station Radio Lillooet off the Fraser River of British Columbia comes a work-in-progress titled “Old Planet, Young People.” The final product will be eight pre-recorded documentaries on environmental research in and around Lillooet. But a lot of the program seems like it will be about critters. There is, in fact, quite a bit […]
LPFM will reach out to older Fort Yuma area Native Americans
Some interesting back story on how KUAV 105.1 Kwatsan Radio in Winterhaven, California got its inspiration. Members of the Fort Yuma Quechan tribe started an Internet radio station in 2010 to foster a “modern approach to increasing knowledge around the culture and traditions of the Quechan people,” according to the operation’s website. But the stream’s […]
LPFM Watch: Commercial Station Group Attacks Tampa LPFM
Just one LPFM construction permit was issued by the FCC in the past week, to the Community Advocacy Coalition of Ventura County, in Oxnard, California. As construction permits issued 18 months ago are expiring some of the other low-power radio action pertains to extensions for stations that are not yet on the air. For instance, […]